Compliance with spectacle wear and its determinants in school students in Central India

Asian Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 174-177

  Khandekar, Rajiv ^a,c   Sudhan, Anand ^b   Jain, B K ^b   Tripathy, Ramkaran ^b   Singh, Vijay ^b  

^a British Columbia Centre for Epidemiologic and International Ophthalmology   (Canada)

^b Sadguru Netra Chikitsalaya ^*  (India)

^c Eye and Ear Health Care Muscat   (Oman)

Author keywords

Compliance; Eyeglasses; Myopia; Refractive errors

Indexed keywords

EID: 48049115377     PISSN: 15602133     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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